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Profile

Professor Julia Bennell is the Executive Dean of 黑料社 University Business School.

She graduated in 1994 with a first class honours in mathematics and management science and received her PhD in management science in 1998 from the University of Swansea. She was promoted to Professor of Management Science at the in 2010. At Southampton, she was the director of (Centre of Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems), one of the top three OR/MS research groups in the UK from 2011 to 2014, Head of the from 2012 -2015 and Deputy Head of School from 2015 - 2018. In addition to her university roles including undertaking research and delivering teaching, she is a qualified executive coach and mentor.

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Aleksandra Kliszcz
Email: A.Kliszcz@leeds.ac.uk

Responsibilities

• Dean of the faculty of Business
• Head of 黑料社 University Business School
• Professor of Operational Research

Research interests

Professor Bennell is an active researcher, and her main research interests are optimisation models for logistics, specifically working in cutting and packing; vehicle routing; scheduling; network design; and heuristic algorithms. She has published three invited review papers: two on cutting and packing in , and one on runway scheduling in the . She has also given keynote presentations in , and . She is Vice President 2 of the Association of  with responsibility for Education and Working Groups and is the chair and co-ordinator of the . She also serves on the Research Panel of the .

She has published over 45 papers in international journals including , , ,, , , . She has won over one million pounds of research funding from a variety of sources including EPSRC (550k), BBSRC (210k) and KTP (225k). She has undertaken a variety of roles as guest editor, stream and session organiser, invited seminar speaker, and organised two international conferences in Southampton. She also has extensive links with external organisations, and has undertaken consultancy and research projects with UK Government organisations and a range of SMEs, as well as leading a programme of training courses for HMRC.

Student education

Professor Bennell has 20 years of experience of teaching across undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA programmes. She has delivered modules in operational research and management science which have covered a range of techniques taught through industry problems, many of which she has worked with directly through consultancy and research projects. She has also taught general operations management modules and quantitative analysis modules at a range of levels.

Current postgraduate researchers

• Nesma ElShishtawy